Despite the fact that the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze has included many contemporaries, co-workers and friends of Chris Marker in his controversial writings on film, Marker himself is missing among the analyzed filmmakers. This thesis challenges the supposed passiveness between both authors assuming certain intersections between their thoughts, aiming to look at several of Chris Marker's emblematic films - indeed not comprehensively, rather naturally subjectively - through the key themes from some of Gilles Deleuze's books. Statues Also Die and Cinama II: The Time-Image; La Jetée and Bergsonism; Sunless and Proust and Signs.

In Outside the Metropolitan Frame: The Nouvelle Vague and the Foreign, 1954-1968 I examine the significance of the Nouvelle Vague directors’ engagement with the world beyond metropolitan France, through formal analyses of seminal films by Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and Jean Rouch, as well as close readings of archival documents pertaining to their promotion and reception. I contend that the directors of the Nouvelle Vague were concerned with the shifts in national, transnational and colonial dynamics that marked their era. I demonstrate that their texts and films are structured by a dialectical relationship between a gaze turned outwards onto the world beyond metropolitan France, and a gaze turned inwards, onto the French. In my first three chapters, I inscribe the Nouvelle Vague in a cultural longue durée by examining its formal and thematic continuities with the tradition of French ethnography; the inter-war artistic movement, Surrealism; and the cinéma vérité documentary tradition of the early 1960s. I illustrate that the films of the Nouvelle Vague were fundamentally shaped by their directors’ engagement with the decolonization of the French empire. In my final chapter, I reexamine the most conspicuous example of foreign influence on the Nouvelle Vague, American cinema, in light of my preceding demonstrations. I determine that there are two levels of foreign influence on the Nouvelle Vague, and that the influence of American cinema was above all textual and superficial, whereas a grappling with the end of the French empire was, though far less conspicuous, fundamental to the form of the Nouvelle Vague films themselves.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:23:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5337.pdf: 1944253 bytes, checksum: d8ad2e1f219b86007f363e0130f908a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-30 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The research focus on the film-essay Sans Soleil (1982, Sunless), directed by the french filmmaker Chris Marker. It aims to study the possibilities of audiovisual format which mediates the relationship between the subject and the different manifestations of the past. In order to accomplish this objective, this paper analyses two aspects of the film: the formal and the thematic. On the first, the emphasis is about the essayistic structure and Intertextuality levels. On the second, we ponder on historical and spiritual conceptions that compose the narrative. Throughout the study, we keep a constant dialogue with other Marker‟s productions and artists that influenced him, like Alfred Hitchcock and Andrei Tarkovski. / A dissertação se concentra sobre o ensaio fílmico Sans Soleil (1982, Sem Sol), realizado pelo cineasta francês Chris Marker, com o objetivo de estudar as possibilidades do formato audiovisual em intermediar a relação entre o sujeito e diferentes manifestações do passado. Para isso, empreende-se uma análise conjunta de dois aspectos do filme: os formais e os temáticos. No primeiro, a ênfase recai sobre a estrutura ensaística e os níveis de intertextualidade. No segundo, reflete-se acerca das concepções de história e de espiritualidade que compõem a narrativa. Ao longo do trabalho, mantém-se constante diálogo com outras produções do diretor e de artistas que o influenciaram, tais quais Alfred Hitchcock e Andrei Tarkovski.